Billions of rupees uplift plans get under way in Sialkot

District Nazim Sialkot Muhammad Akmal Cheema has vowed to develop ignored and far-off areas of rural and urban parts of the district.
Talking reporters here, he said that special attention had been given to improve means of communication and provision of better health and education facilities to the masses in every union council of the district.
Cheema disclosed that the district government was spending more than Rs1.22 billion on the construction of 85 different roads in Sialkot district, adding that construction work on these roads was on different stages and efforts were being made for the completion within the stipulated period.
The steps had been taken for improving the means of communication and linking the far-off areas with their respective Tehsil headquarters in the district, he said.
Cheema revealed that Sialkot-Head Marala road was being converted into dual carriageway at a cost of Rs 350 million and development work on the project would be undertaken soon.
The district government had approved as many as 32 different projects costing Rs50 million under Citizen Community Board (CCB) and development work on these projects would be initiated shortly in various parts of the district, disclosed District Nazim Sialkot Muhammad Akmal Cheema.
More than Rs50 million were being spent on the widening and reconstruction of BRB canal bridge near Daska city for streamlining the traffic on Sialkot-Gujranwala road while Rs20 million would be spent on the widening and improvement of Daska bypass road for reducing the traffic problems.
In addition to this Sialkot-Gujranwala road would be converted into dual carriageway at the estimated cost of Rs1.20 billion, he added.
Special attention, he said, had been accorded on the promotion of education and district government had allocated Rs1.84 billion for the completion of different projects.
Cheema said in order to provide better health cover to the masses at their doorstep Rs260 million were being spent of improvement of rural health centres and basic health units in the district.
He pledged the district government would play an instrumental role for the betterment of the common man and ensure maximum relief for the general public of the district. Cheema said that all available resources were being mobilised for converting Sialkot district into a model district of the Punjab.